The Space War Thread

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On the Russian side, they hollow out an asteroid, spin it for 1g and convert it into their orbital base.

Aquarium. It's automated, but it's A.I. is more rudimentary, doesn't have much of a persona.

The facilities are more austere, they just live in modular habs on the floor inside the Asteroid.

Their Space Fighting Vehicles (BMK) are just stood around the habs, with scaffolding type maintenance towers

To deploy they just walk through several large cargo airlocks into space, then fire their rocket booster packs

The Russian BMK is not as sophisticated as the American BMD, the A.I. have simpler persona's.

The Russian BMK is inferior at standoff range, but it's optimized for CQC melee.

The Russian Cosmonauts are not as versatile as the American military Astronauts, but they are fearsome fighters.

Space Ivan.

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Back on Earth the Russians parade their BMK's through Red Square.

The Americans test their MBD's out at Area 51.

The Spacepowers are in Maginot Line mode on the Inner Jovian Border at Jupiter.

The United States Space Force Battle Group and Russian Veyenno Flota Kosmetskaya orbit Jupiter.

They send resupply ships to their forward bases at Saturn through the Demilitarized Zone.

MBD/BMK and crews can be attached or detached from Jupiter to Saturn as force levels mandate.

The forces fly right past each other back and forth, and in orbit around Jupiter.

Both the Americans and Russians have their major military bases on Ganymede, like East & West Berlin.

The American moonbase on Luna is Moonbase Alpha

On Phobos around Mars is Moonbase Beta

On Ganymede is Moonbase Gamma

On Iapetus Moonbase Delta

There is another UN scientific mission under the ice on Europa, the support bases are on top of the ice

They transfer through huge ice docks to the Europa Sea below, to study the alien fish.

In this theater there is espionage and sabotage and this is where the CIA & KGB have their stations.

Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations Exoplanetary Activities Group (CIA - XAG)

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti Directorate S & Komandovanie Sil Spetsial’nalnykh Operatsii (KGB - CCO)

Space NOC's

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The Moonbases on Ganymede are like small cities, East & West Space Berlin's

The seats of government in space, the corporate offices in space, the MICC in Space.

They are building upwards on the surface, and downwards into the rock. They go on for kilometers.

The American military base within Moonbase Alpha is of course called the Green Zone. It's a huge base unto itself

Moonbase Gamma is USSF, NASA, USGOV, and Space Contractors.

The Russian Moonbase is called Novaya Zemla ('New Land') The Russian military moonbase is Zvezda-3

The flagship of the USSF Task Group is the USS Neil Armstrong.

The flagship of the Russian Veyenno Flota Kosmetskaya is the VKS Arkhangelsk.

The UN Moonbase on Europa is called Atlantia.

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Out in orbit around Neptune, the NASA Orion Starship is preparing for test flights in the outer solar system.

SS-1 USS Independence . SS-2 USS Constellation is being launched from Earth towards Uranus.

SS-3 USS Enterprise is being fitted out in the Lagrange point. SS-4 USS Columbia is under construction.



But that's for Book Two.

The Russians are building their own Starship. Soyuz.

The Cold War Space Race going for higher ground, at Alpha Centauri.

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Meanwhile, back on Mars :

The American base at Fort Glenn, called the Alamo, and NASA Moonbase Beta on Phobos ;

Are surrounded by the Martian Banksters of the Offworld Cartels.

The Russian Spacepower ensures that the Russian Mafiya is the Apex Predator on Mars

The KGB is here as well, operating with the Cartels as muscle, against the Americans at the Fort Glenn.

The Alamo at the foot of Olympus Mons.

The Cartels rule the 'Stacks', colony cities built into the walls of the Vallis Marinieris trench.

The Commander of the USSF at Fort Glenn is known by his troops as the Sheriff of the Alamo.

He and his deputy are Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Space.

Space Marshals.

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Meanwhile on Venus :

The Cloud Cities are the ultimate hedonistic resorts.

There are large one like Space Vegas, Space Tokyo, Space Paris, etetera

Then there are ultra exclusive smaller resorts of all types.

The big ones are more legit. It's generally on the up and up.

The more exclusive resorts are controlled by the Offworld Cartels.

The KGB operates from the Cartel reorts, the CIA has XAG NOC's stay in the bigger resorts

Spacekraft

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Meanwhile on Earth :

China & Japan fought the China Seas War. Japan won. China collapses like the Soviets did, chaos & disorder.

In order to beat China, the Japanese mobilized for total war and rewrote their constitution therein.

Empire of Nihon. They take control of the Western Pacific. PacRim Hegenomy.

Nihon is a Spacepower second only to Spacemerica and Spacerossiya.

The Japanese have their own MBDs Nihon Bushidos. Nihon is non aligned, allied with India, joint space program.

The European Union has gone fascist. Not NSDAP, just Mullolini style Corporate Fascism. Vichy in Space.

The ESA is a big player on the exploration side, rivaling NASA. NATO is the European military force.

The United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are allied to Spacemerica. UKUSSA. Anglophere.

America & Russia are the premiere Spacepowers.

The Islamic State rules the Muslim World, there are still Jihadists, but they are now State Sanctioned.

Daesh has no space program, but they do infiltrate space by way of Mars.

The Europe and Nihon dominate the Globalist Hegenomy

America and Russia are the dominant Space Powers.

There is a New Hegenomy rising. Oceana. Offshore nation states, new countries at sea.

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So into Saturn right now.

Just getting the geography right.

There's no need to go interstellar for a strange alien setting, Saturn is the real deal.

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Getting back to Spacemerica on Mars :

Valles Marineris is the cities on Mars. The valley is 50 km across, the walls are as high as 7 km

Due to the lack of a magnetosphere and thin atmosphere, most of a Martian colony is underground.

The Stacks are like cities built back into the walls of the Valles, the faces of which are like giant skyscrapers

It's like a Rio de Janeiro, the facades of the stack are luxurious, Executive Suites of the Offworld Banksters

The deeper you go into the rock, the poorer it gets, becoming like a Favela in Space, controlled by gangs

The American outpost at Olympus Mons is the original colony, from which the stack cities were built

The Olympus Colony eventually militarized into Fort Glenn, the Alamo on Mars, surrounded by the Offworld Cartels

This is where the main adversaries/villains Arkeyev and Koval are from.

Arkeyev is a Chechen raised amongst the Russian gangs who call themselves the Rus.

Makes him the a baddest fighter of them all.

Koval is his Lieutenant, but also his rival, Koval is one of the Rus.

The Russian Space Troops, Voyenno Kosmetskaya Voyska (VKV) ; recruit from the Stacks on Mars.

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Now, the Orbat for Mister Ivan.

Voyenno-Kosmicheskiye Sily Rossii (VKCR) Military Space Force of Russia.

Voyennyye Kosmicheskiye Voyska (VKV) Military Space Troops "Vay-Kay-Vay"

Kosmicheskiy Desantnyy Batal'on (KDB) Space Landing Battalion

Mikoyan - Sukhoi (MiG Cy) BMK : Vityaz (Space Fighting Vehicle : Knight)

MiG-Cy BMK-1M2 'Gepard' / MiG-Cy BMK-2U 'Vepr'

Voyska Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya Voyenno-Kosmicheskiye Sily (Spetsnaz VKC)

Special Purpose Troops of the Military Space Force

Space Alpha.